This Church Matters Because We Believe God Wants Your Life to Be a Story Worth Telling

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Sunday, January 12, 14

First Century Rome was devastated by plagues

A PECULIAR PEOPLE

A PECULIAR PEOPLEA GROUP OF PEOPLE, LEARNING TOGETHER TO FOLLOW GOD AND TO LOVE EACH OTHER

THIS KIND OF PECULIAR

NOT THIS KIND

NOT THIS KIND EITHER

DO WE SMELL OF LIFE AND DEATH?2Cor 2 14 Give thanks to God! He always leads us in the winners’ parade because we belong to Christ. Through us, God spreads the knowledge of Christ everywhere like perfume. 15 God considers us to be the sweet smell that Christ is spreading among people who are being saved and people who are dying. 16 To the one, we are the smell of death. To the other, we are the perfume of life. Who is able to do that work? (NIVR)

WE BELIEVE GOD WANTS YOUR LIFE TO BEa story worth telling | 2Cor 2:14-16

HOW WILL PEOPLE KNOW THAT WE BELONG TO JESUS?

OUR STORIESCOMPELLING

Be the change you want to see in the World.

-Mahatma Gandhi

A STORY IS SIMPLY A CHARACTER WHO WANTS SOMETHING AND OVERCOMES CONFLICT TO GET IT.

Be the change you want to see in the World.

-Mahatma Gandhi

42MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.MOVIE NIGHTNEXT SATURDAY7:30-10:00 PMMINISTRY CENTER FELLOWSHIP HALL

Is there a difference between a great story and

a great Christian story?

Dr. Steve KawamuraEBCLA Missionary | Brazil

COMMON ELEMENTS OF GREAT STORIES

primary character

primary character ambition

primary character ambition obstacles

primary character ambition obstacles inciting

incident

primary character ambition obstacles inciting

incidentaudacious outcome

MY STORYLINELEARNING HOW TO MAKE YOUR LIFE A STORY WORTH TELLING

MY STORYLINELEARNING HOW TO MAKE YOUR LIFE A STORY WORTH TELLINGPASTOR KEN & STAFF

MY STORYLINELEARNING HOW TO MAKE YOUR LIFE A STORY WORTH TELLINGPASTOR KEN & STAFFEvery second Saturday from 9AM-Noon @ church

MY STORYLINELEARNING HOW TO MAKE YOUR LIFE A STORY WORTH TELLINGPASTOR KEN & STAFFEvery second Saturday from 9AM-Noon @ churchFrom February thru May

MY STORYLINELEARNING HOW TO MAKE YOUR LIFE A STORY WORTH TELLINGPASTOR KEN & STAFFEvery second Saturday from 9AM-Noon @ churchFrom February thru May• All EBCLA Leaders

• Any Interested Persons

• Videotaped

JESUS HAS CALLED US TO LIVE IN SUCH A WAY THAT OUR STORIES LEAD PEOPLE TO HIM AND TO HIS CLAIMS.

2Cor 2 16 To the one, we are the smell of death. To the other, we are the perfume of life. Who is able to do that work? (NIVR)

NONE OF US.

ROMANS 8:37 No, in all these things we are more than

conquerors through him who loved us.

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This Church Matters Because We Believe God Wants Your Life to Be a Story Worth Telling

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